I just want to publicly thank Stan for his excellent help... and also let others know what I did in the meantime, before being able to try Stan's suggestion. I loaded the list of names into Microsoft Word. Noting that -- despite at least a handful of general variations -- *ALL* valid internet addresses were bound by EITHER <'s or ('s, I set up this rule in the FIND AND REPLACE box: -- REPLACE: [\(\)\<\>] -- WITH: ^p in english... replace any of these symbols: ()<> with a paragraph mark. This, then, left all the internet addresses on lines by themselves. I then used a simple grep program to grep all lines with an @, and save those lines to a file. I then loaded that file into Microsoft Word, and did: -- REPLACE: ^p -- WITH: ^pSET (listname) TOPICS: +(topicname) FOR I cut and paste this final result, a few hundred lines at a time, into mails sent to listserv. It worked! :-) Stan's way is a bit more elegant, I believe... and I plan to try that out during my next batch of topic changes. Thanks again, Stan :-) ___________________________________________________________________ ADAM | Publisher of the "Smile List" (e-mail [log in to unmask]) ---- | and the AdamPages website w/ RealAudio music, pictures, :-) | humor, Live Chat, and much more at http://pobox.com/~smile